How Does Your Bread Rise?
How much time do you spend worrying?
What is your worry?
Finances? Your Relationships? Your children? Your Future?
What is it that you’re holding onto?
It’s tiring and energy-consuming to hold onto things you’ve created.
You may have seen the email joke which involves clicking on a specific area of the screen, only to have it dart away as soon as your mouse hovers over it? The frustration is the moment you attempt to click on it – it disappears!
The same is true of life; the more you chase after something the further away it becomes.
Therefore setting your intention for your heart’s desire and not surrendering it to your highest good works exactly the same.
Have you ever watched a loaf of bread being baked?
It takes the necessary time to rise, at the right temperature after having mixed the right ingredients.
You, as the baker can’t push it along or try and bake it faster (unless you want a flop).
Deliciously warm melt-in-the-mouth bread WILL result when the time is right.
Your role is merely doing what is required.
Mixing the ingredients and heating up the oven.
Once you’ve popped the loaf pan inside, you LEAVE the bread ALONE. The oven (and perhaps yeast) do the rest.
This baking process isn’t hard. It goes smoothly. You get on with other commitments but still enjoy the magic of fresh bread a while later!
It’s the same with any personal development or new relationship work.
Forcing a situation takes you nowhere.
This means you create a picture of WHAT you want – but let go of the HOW.
You don’t want your dream to keep escaping your grasp the moment you hover over it, do you?
During a meditation I received a picture of me physically pushing a heavy block of concrete away from me. The more I detached myself from it, the more space I created in front of me.
That’s (now) my visual understanding of healthy detachment. My desires are all “out there” and within this detached space, opportunities provided by the Universe magically “arrive”.
This doesn’t however mean you stop DOING anything towards your heart’s desire. Your life is still your responsibility.
Ironically you become more effective and efficient because you spend more time in the present with what you do. And with what you want.
I’m reading a book called “Success Intelligence” by Robert Holden. He simply says that being busy all the time is insane. It erodes away at your life and destroys your larger dreams.
By keeping busy, you keep filling up that “empty space”.
By remaining present within your “empty space”, you’ll be surprised by how many inner prompts you receive – reminding you of your next step towards your heart’s desire.
Isn’t this easier than following a controlling to-do list religiously in order to make your dreams come true?
I can hear you asking, “But, how can this work in the real world?”
Let’s use the example of starting a new relationship.
I’m sure you already know that pushing a person into love certainly doesn’t work.
Neither party makes immediate plans for the future. And although the frequent calling, emailing and texting are fun and exciting, there are periods of “wait and see”, which gives the relationship room to grow.
There is something to be said for taking it slowly.
You give yourself time. You give the other person time. I.e. you create a mutual space within which magic can work.
Attaching yourself completely to someone or to your dreams is hard work.
You’re easing out the flow of the Universe. You’re trying to do the creating rather than being part of the divine creation.
Within any journey or relationship, watch how YOU”RE blossoming – not controlling the external surroundings.
This is what trusting yourself and your universe is all about.
Don’t try so hard, but rather let go of the reins of your life.
Let Go To Grow.
“Most hard-boiled people are half-baked”
Wilson Mizner (Playwright 1876-1933)
Submitted by Heidi Cornelissen, Completely Human
